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Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 comes with a completely redesigned and enhanced suite of in-browser developer tools that help developers build, diagnose, and optimize modern Web sites and apps across multiple devices. The new tools, which we call F12 for short, enable Web developers to work quickly and efficiently.
The Visual Studio and IE teams have worked together to build F12 with a core principle of helping you get from problem to solution quickly with actionable data. The new F12 enables you to deliver fast and fluid Web experiences with tools for diagnosing and fixing performance issues and tools that give you deeper insight into how IE is laying out and rendering your app. F12 supports the fast, iterative workflow used by modern Web developers.

Source : IEBlog

Kerberos is becoming increasingly mandatory for really cool features such as Protocol Transition. Moreover, as you might be painfully aware, managing Service Principal Names (SPN’s) for the use of Kerberos by applications can be daunting at times.
In this blog, we will not be going into the gory details of SPNs and how applications are using them. In fact, I’m assuming you already have some basic knowledge about SPN’s and how they are used.

Source : Ask the Directory Services Team Blog

In today’s blog I am going to discuss how to handle booting from a USB drive on a UEFI system so you can deploy Windows

Article : Ask the Core Team

Did you know there are 5 places where ASP.NET requests can become queued on an IIS server?
Not all these queues are documented, and it can be very difficult to tell when and where requests are queued.
As part of LeanSentry's automatic hang detection and troubleshooting, we had to figure out the IIS/ASP.NET request queueing behavior. So, we wanted to share the knowledge with everyone so you can properly track down queued requests.
Read on to learn all about these queues, how to tell when requests are queued, and how to identify the exact requests that are actually queued!

Source : blog.leansentry.com

With Windows 8.1 we will receive a new Powershell. Read all about it.

Windows PowerShell 4.0 includes several significant features that extend its use, improve its usability, and allow you to control and manage Windows-based environments more easily and comprehensively.

Windows PowerShell 4.0 is backward-compatible. Cmdlets, providers, modules, snap-ins, scripts, functions, and profiles that were designed for Windows PowerShell 3.0 and Windows PowerShell 2.0 work in Windows PowerShell 4.0 without changes.

Continue reading : technet.microsoft.com

Did you know you could customize the "Windows 8 Win X Menu" ?
Yes you can !
Check out this great article by Joseph Moody on DeployHapiness :
Windows 8 Win X Menu: Editing

At long last, Microsoft has released a version of its Office suite for iOS. The new app targets the iPhone and closely resembles the Office app that’s built into Windows Phone 8. Here's what you'll find in the new app, which is available from the App Store immediately.

Souce : The Ed Bott Report

Today at Computex 2013, Tami Reller, CFO and CMO of Microsoft's Windows Division, announced that Outlook 2013 RT will be available on Windows RT tablets as part of the free Windows 8.1 update coming later this year. This means that if you have a Microsoft Surface or a Windows RT tablet made by one of our hardware partners, or you are planning to buy one, you'll soon have access to the familiar tools in Outlook that help you communicate with others, manage your contacts and appointments, and find information fast.

bink.nu

There is a ‘must read’ chapter in ASP.NET documentation on MSDN about security :

ASP.NET Security Content Map

Well, it only took three years, but Microsoft has finally taken on the iPad in the place that needs the most work: Public perception. A new ad, designed to mimic the sickly sweet iPad ads of late, pits Apple’s tablet against a Windows 8 tablet. And it is awesome.

Source : winsupersite.com

Samsung's new flagship phone, the Galaxy S4, is packed with a ton of extras –– almost to a fault.

When the phone first came out, reviewers criticized Samsung for shoving too many complex and glitchy extras in the phone.

But there are some features in the GS4 that do work well and could be useful, and you won't find them in the GS4's chief rival, the iPhone.

Let's take a look at some of the best features in the GS4 that you won't find in the iPhone.

Step 1 : Create the file Register-ScheduledTasksEx.ps1

Create a new file named Register-ScheduledTasksEx.ps1 in the directory where the taskscheduler module is installed (generally %USERPROFILE%\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules) and paste the following code in it.

function Register-ScheduledTaskEx 
{
    <#
    .Synopsis
        Registers a scheduled task.
    .Description
        Registers a scheduled task.
        Modified to support Folders (path)
    #>
    param(
    # The name of the scheduled task to register
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,Position=0)]
    [string]
    $name,

    # The path of the scheduled task to register
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$false)]
    [ValidateNotNull()]
    [string]
    $path="",
        
    # The Scheduled Task to Register
    [Parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$true,
        Mandatory=$true)]
    [__ComObject]
    $Task,
        
    # The name of the computer to connect to.
    [string[]]
    $ComputerName,
    
    # The credential used to connect
    [Management.Automation.PSCredential]
    $Credential    
    )  
    
    begin {
        Set-StrictMode -Off
    }
    process {
        if ($task.Definition) { $Task = $task.Definition } 
        foreach ($c in $computerName) {
            $scheduler = Connect-ToTaskScheduler -ComputerName $c -Credential $Credential            
            if ($scheduler -and $scheduler.Connected) {
                $folder = $scheduler.GetFolder($path)
                if ($Credential) {
                    $folder.RegisterTaskDefinition($Name, 
                        $Task, 
                        6,
                        $credential.UserName,
                        $credentail.GetNetworkCredential().Password,
                        6,
                        $null)
                } else {
                    $folder.RegisterTaskDefinition($Name, 
                        $Task, 
                        6,
                        "",
                        "",
                        3,
                        $null)                
                }                
            } 
        }
    }
}

Step 2 : Modify TaskScheduler.psm1 file

Add the following line to the TaskScheduler.psm1 file (In the TaskScheduler module directory).

. $psScriptRoot\Register-ScheduledTaskEx.ps1

Example

Here’s how to use the new cmdlet :

import-module TaskScheduler
$ScheduledTask = New-Task
$ScheduledTask | add-TaskAction -path "Notepad.exe" -Arguments "" -WorkingDirectory ""| out-null
# Note : The folder "\MyCustomFolder" must already  exist in the TaskScheduler
$ScheduledTask | Register-ScheduledTaskEx -Name "MyCustomScheduledTask" -path "\MyCustomFolder" -ComputerName Localhost | out-null

Source : powershelleverydayfaq.blogspot.ca

Robert McMurray has started an excellent series of posts about Log Parser.

The first 6 posts in his series are available :

Source : blogs.msdn.com

The Galaxy S IV is going to be announced March 15th with the device being available in Europe and Asia beginning in April. The U.S., Australia and Africa will be able to get their hands on the Galaxy device in the May / June time frame.

Source : Life On My Mobile

If you followed security experts' advice and manually updated Java this week to fix a critical vulnerability, you might have gotten more than you asked for. Oracle probably makes tens of millions of dollars a year from crapware, and big venture capitalists see it as a growth business.

Source : The Ed Boot Report

In Windows 8 and especially on Windows RT, your ability to run Flash programs hosted on the web depends on whether a site is included on Microsoft's Compatibility View list. So what does it take to get added to that list? And what can you do if a favorite Flash-based site won't work?

Source : The Ed Bott Report

Windows Deployment Services (WDS) is a server role available in Windows Server 2012 that enables administrators to install Windows client and server operating system software remotely. WDS is aimed at small to mid-sized businesses who may not have the budget for enterprise-class OS deployment technologies.

In this blog post I’d like to highlight the new features and enhancements that Microsoft made to WDS in Windows Server 2012 as compared to Windows Server 2008 R2. We can summarize the new features succinctly as follows, after which we’ll provide more detail on each one:

Support for ARM devices

Greater control over deployment payload

Standalone mode

Expected Deployment Results wizard

Source : 4sysops.com

Bink.nu has put up a nice list of links to find what's new in Office 2003 applications :

Source : bink.nu - What’s new in Office 2013

As much as we love adding new features to Outlook, for the maintainability of our product we sometimes need to remove those that are out of date and aren't utilized by a large number of users. This allows us to focus on improving the Outlook features that most of you, our customers, rely on.

Source : Outlook Blog - Outlook 2013 deprecated features and components

Apple has today launched a new status page for its iCloud, store and general services that provides far more detail about status and uptimes of its various cloud and backend components. The page features detailed breakdowns of each service, categorized by section including Services, Stores and iCloud.

Source : TheNextWeb
Link : www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

Google Maps (Free) by Google, Inc. is the Apple Maps replacement everyone has been waiting for. Since they took out Google for the maps in iOS 6, Apple has faced numerous public incidents because of their in-house Maps software, with the latest being potentially life threatening in Australia. And now, for everyone’s sake, Google Maps returns.

Source : AppAdvice

Adobe has released a free font set for coding environments called Source Code Pro. The set include 6 fonts :

You can download it at sourceforge.net/projects/sourcecodepro.adobe

Here’s some samples to compare it with other fonts good for coding.

Source Code Pro :

Consolas :

Lucida Console :

Source : www.powertheshell.com

Even though Cassini is the default development web server in Visual Studio, Microsoft has provided a stand-alone option that also integrates with Visual Studio. IIS Express is almost exactly like the full IIS, only it is self-contained, it isn’t a service, and it doesn’t need admin rights for most tasks. We are going to walk through how to get it, how to configure it, and how to make the most of it without spending a lot of time on it.

Article : Tim Corey on CodeProject

IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012 doesn’t have any fixed concurrent request limit, apart from whatever limit would be reached when resources are maxed.
However, the client version of IIS 8, which is on Windows 8, does have a concurrent connection request limitation to limit high traffic production uses on a client edition of Windows.

Source : Windows 8 / IIS 8 Concurrent Requests Limit - Scott Forsyth's Blog

Learn about the features and functionality that are deprecated in SharePoint 2013.

Complete article : Changes from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013
Source : Stefan Gobner

Idera, a leading provider of application and server management solutions, today demonstrated its strong commitment to the PowerShell community by making its PowerShell Plus product available for free. This milestone was also marked by the delivery of a new version of the product, PowerShell Plus 4.6.

Source : PowerShell Magazine

Stress test your application stack and expand your toolset with Windows versions of popular Unix/Linux-based command-line utilities with this month’s tools.
StressStimulus GnuWin

Source : Toolbox: New products for IT professionals | TechNet Magazine

Navigating Windows 8 involves a steeper learning curve, but you can't dispute the features that Microsoft has absolutely nailed.

Complete article : www.cio.com

Microsoft announced today that it has participated in the porting of a hit iOS game, Contre Jour, to the web with Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10. Described as the most ambitious use of HTML5 to date, Contre Jour needs to be experienced with a Windows 8 (or RT) tablet to be fully appreciated.

Interested in playing Contre Jour on the web? Check it out now at http://www.contrejour.ie.

Source : Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

The latest language from the company once identified for its programming languages seeks to bring a higher class of developer into the Web apps space, without changing the foundation of the Web... even if such a change wouldn’t be such a bad idea